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(No Model.) A G. W.' J ACKMAN.

GLOVE FASTENBR.

N0.'413,399. 'Patented 001;. 22. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE NV. JAOKMAN, OF LITTLETON, NEV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO l-IIMSELF AND IRA PARKER & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

GLOVE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,399, dated October 22, 1889.

Application filed February 7, 1889. Serial No. 298,948. (No model.) l

' .To aZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. JACKMAN, ofl Littleton, in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and usefullmprovementin Fasteners for` Gloves and other Articles, of which the follloWing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to fasteners for the opening and closing portions of gloves and other articles, including various ones of wearing-apparel having a divided or open portion to be fastened; and the invention consists in a cord-like fastener and special constructions and combinations of parts for operation in connection with the cord, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, and wherebyl am enabled to provide a cheap and perfect fastener which is capable of being` rapidly operated, and will have a iirln hold at different points of adjustment.

Byway of illustration, the invention will here be shown as applied to gloves, and more particularly be described with reference thereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures,"

Figure l represents a perspective face view of a glove having my improved vfastener according to one of its forms or modiications applied, and showing the slitted or opening portion of the glove as approximately closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the glove in part open at its slitted portion, and showing' the fastener under a modified construction applied; and Fig. 3 is a further like view showing, as an equivalent, the fastenin g-strin g differently attached to the glove.

Referring in the first instance to Fig. l of the drawings, A indicates a glove provided with the usual divided or open portion or slit b at the wrist. Upon one side of said slitted portion isahole c, orit might be an eyelet, and in the opposite side of said portion is an eyelet d. Also attached to the glove beyond or outside of this eyelet d is a iiexible thumb-piece 4 or flap e, having fastened to it a friction device or holder f, which may loe of abar-like construction of any suitable shape. Secured to the first-named side of the divided or open portion b of the glove, as through the eyelet or hole cand opposite to the eyelet d, is the one end of a double cord or string g. Said double cord is then passed within or beneath the portion of the glove on the other side of the slit b, up and out through the eyelet d, and over or through the friction holder or bar f, and back at its free looped end between the two sides or lengths of the remaining portion of the oord between the device f and the eyelet d'. By pulling on this free looped end of the cord the glove will be closed and fastened at any point of adj ust-ment required, and will be held fastened by the friction or bite which the cord will have upon the holder or bar f. When it is required to loosen-the fastening and open the glove again, all that is necessary is to lift upon the iiap thumb-piece e, which will remove friction or pressure from the cord.

Instead of the friction device or holder on the thumb-piece e being in the form of a bar, it might be in the shape of eyelets for the two lengths of the cord to pass through. Thus in Fig. 2 of the drawings the flap thumb-piece e is represented as provided with two eyelets f f', near each other, which constitute the friction holding and guiding device for the double cord g. Said cord is attached at its one end, as hereinbefore described, to the portion of the glove at-c on one side of the slit b, then passed up through the eyelet or hole d on the other side'of the slit, and preferably through an eyelet or guide s in an attachment e to the thumb-pieces, then through consecutively in reverse directions the two eyelets f f in the thumbpiece e and out between the two lengths of the cord, as before. The operation of opening and closing the glove is the same as before.

In some cases a single cord or strap might take the place of the double cord. I

In- Fig. 3 the fastening-string g is shown attached to the glove on the same side of the opening Z2 as the thumb-piece e, and then passed or run through an eyelet c on the other side of said opening back to the iirst side, and through the eyelet d, as in Fig. l. Under this construction, to open the glove easily, grasp the corner of the upper side of the IOO slitted portion of the glove and raise it, then pass the forefinger under the string and lift..

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a glove or other article having' a divided opening and closing portion to be fastened, the combination, With such article, of a cord secured at its one end to the article: on one side of said opening, and a flap thumbpiece secured to the article on the opposite side of such opening, provided With a holder adapted to produce friction on the cord, said cord being passed through a guide or hole in the article on the opposite side of the opening to that on which the cord is attached7 and afterward passed at its free end over and under or through the friction-h older attached to the flap thumb-piece, whereby, upon drawing on the free end of the cord, the glove or article is closed and held closed at its opening, and upon lifting the thumb piece the cord is slackened or relieved of pressure to admit of opening of the article, essentially as described.

2. In a glove or other article having a divided opening and closing portion to be fastened, the combination, with such article, of the fastening-cord g, secured at its one end, as at c, to the article on one side of its opening, the eyelet or hole d on the opposite Side of said opening, the flap thumb-piece e, and a cord-holding friction device attached to said thumb-piece, substantially as speciied.

GEORGE W. JACKMAN.

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